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  • Jelle Kamsma
  • Url: http://thingsthatpass.wordpress.com/
  • Posts: 7
  • About the user: I am a MA student of New Media at the University of Amsterdam. I have a bachelor degree in Media and Culture. After three years mostly focussing on film and visual culture I've made the switch to new media. Mostly because I'm interested in journalism and how it has to adapt to the new media. I just finished an internship at ANP Video, a Dutch press agency that makes short video-items for different newssites. I'm curious to find out how new media theories will aply to my experiences in the practical field.

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Towards a methodology for Web-based investigative reporting

Jelle Kamsma | 03 April 2010, 1:05 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

This article discusses the implementation of new online methods in the field of investigative journalism. The development and nature of investigative reporting are shortly discussed before turning to the ways Internet research is conducted in the field of new media. By describing a number of distinct steps this article tries to sketch the contours of a methodology for this type of reporting in which strategies as well as responsibilities of investigative reporters doing Internet research are discussed. This is also the subject of my thesis so all feedback is more than welcome.

Information Overload at eComm

Jelle Kamsma | 01 November 2009, 2:33 pm | tags: , , , ,

The first day of the Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference & Awards was an excellent opportunity to make a first acquaintance with Google Wave, the new communication platform by Google. Participants of the conference were all provided with an invite and were encouraged to use the platform for the backchannel discussion. For each speaker there was a ‘wave’ in which…

The Geospatial Dimension of News

Jelle Kamsma | 16 October 2009, 9:24 pm | tags: , , , ,

In one of his blogposts Chris Anderson came up with rather expressive metaphor for a phenomena we all experience in relation to news: ‘That our interest in a subject is in inverse proportion to its distance (geographic, emotional or otherwise) from us.’ Anderson calls this phenomena ‘the vanishing point theory of news’. He acknowledges that there is nothing new…

Is Twitter Gonna Kill Us?

Jelle Kamsma | 09 October 2009, 12:49 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

“Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.” – Jean Baudrillard

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New media like Twitter often endure a lot of criticism. A lot of these critical remarks can…

How can Social Network Sites help artists to make money?

Jelle Kamsma | 01 October 2009, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Big record companies like to blame the internet for the decreasing amount of albums that are being sold in the conventional shops. It seems to me that one of the main characteristics of big conglomerates like the record industry is their desire to resist change. They like to keep the status quo even if this means missing some great opportunities…

Sexuality and Wikipedia

Jelle Kamsma | 24 September 2009, 1:08 pm | tags: , , , ,

Foucault argued that political power and coercion is not only exercised by our government but also by institutions which we don’t immediately see as political, like our education or our healthcare. I would like to add Wikipedia to that list. Wikipedia sees a Neutral Point of View (NPoV) as “a fundamental Wikimedia principle and a cornerstone of Wikipedia.”…

A Review of: Taken Out of Context

Jelle Kamsma | 14 September 2009, 1:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

She’s being called the rockstar of social network sites and has done some extensive research on the subject. The American academic Danah Boyd has now completed her PhD dissertation, “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics”, in which she examines the phenomenon. In her dissertation she takes a closer look at how…